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The taxman has saved £400 million by identifying fraudulent or mistaken payments in the past six months, and could, thanks to new software, save up to £10 billion by the end of the Parliament, The Times has learnt.

So confident is Fujitsu in its detection system that it has urged ministers to adopt it across all departments to crackdown on fraud and said that it will operate it on a “no-win, no-fee” basis.

It will take a cut of the savings detected by its software instead of the advance fee that is the norm with big public sector IT contracts.